If you're a big Gmail user, here's a quick tip that you might enjoy taking advantage of
when cycling through your inbox.
By default, if you delete, archive, or mute any conversation, Gmail will automatically take you back to your inbox. That's fine for me. I generally deal my emails in a very haphazard manner, not necessarily in the order they arrive. But if you prefer to go to either the next or previous message in the inbox, rather than back to the inbox view you can adjust this. Go to:
- Settings (the cog icon)
- Click "See all settings"
- Click the "Advanced" tab along the top
- Next to the option for "Auto-advance" choose "Enable"
Once this is enabled, this will also add an option in the "General" settings tab that looks like this:
This lets you customize what message is focused on next (next newest, next oldest, or back to the threadlist). And note that this option doesn't appear in your General tab until you first enable "Auto-advance" in your "Advanced" tab.
A simple feature that most, if not all, email clients have, but probably not one that we tend to change from the default. I think most of us just get used to whatever the default behaviour is and make that work for us. But this is a good setting to be aware of if you want to customize how Gmail behaves when going through messages in your inbox.
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